Chernobyl 30 Years Later: Those Who Live in Its Shadow Still Suffer. Residents say their plight is being ignored by Ukraine's government. By ABC News. April 26, 2016, 11:56 AM. 2:23.

Chernobyl Disaster and UFOs Tourists photograph one another on the remains of a merry-go-round in the ghost town of Pripyat not far from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on August 19, 2017, in ...

Reporting from Chernobyl, Ukraine — Seated in a jeep and clutching a screeching Geiger counter, Lt. Col. Viktor Chershnev led a convoy of 30 military trucks through the center of sleeping Kiev.

Tour operators in Ukraine say interest in the site of the nuclear explosion as a vacation spot has grown since the launch of “Chernobyl” on HBO.

Chernobyl once sat at the centre of a 1,000-square-mile exclusion zone implemented after the 1986 catastrophe, but much of the area has been open to tourists since 2011.

2 things we believe: Chernobyl was catastrophic, and we need nuclear power more than ever The HBO series shows we’re not going to have another Chernobyl.

Chernobyl’s effects go far beyond what you’re seeing on HBO. It shook up geopolitics for years. From the Soviet Union’s fall to Ukraine’s nuclear disarmament, the disaster changed the region.

The Soviet Union knew the Chernobyl plant was a ticking time bomb for years before it melted down -- but the government kept the nuclear facility running anyway.

Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded and burned April 26, 1986. The complex construction effort to secure the molten reactor's core and 200 tons of highly ...

Chernobyl's Hot Zone Holds Some Surprises The nuclear crisis in Japan has evoked memories of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Robert Baker, a biologist at Texas Tech, who co-directs the Chernobyl ...